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Fritz Kreisler - Schön Rosmarin - Old Viennese Dance no.3

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Richard Strauss - Im Abendrot (Four Last Songs)

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Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

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Amy Beach - Pastorale Op.151

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Edward Elgar - 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 2, Deep in my Soul

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Edward Elgar - 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1, There Is Sweet Music

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Anton Stepanovich Arensky - Piano Quintet in D major, Op 51 (3rd mvt)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

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George Frideric Handel - Sonata in A major, HWV 372

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Edward Elgar - 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 2, Deep in my Soul

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Edward Elgar - 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1, There Is Sweet Music

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George Frideric Handel - Sonata in A major, HWV 372

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Peter Graham - Meditation

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Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 21 In B Flat Major, D.960: III. Scherzo

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Ferdinand Ries - String Quartet in F Major, Op. 70 No. 1: (4th movement)

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Herman Vogt - Lux Manifesta: IV. You Are the Light of the World

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Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34, TH 58

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Linda Kouvaras - Bundanon Suite for Piano: I. Secrets of the Amphitheatre

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major (3rd movement)

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Peteris Vasks - The Fruit of Silence

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Edward Elgar - Carissima

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Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau

2011-06-28

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Ralph Vaughan Williams - Serenade to music

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George Gershwin - 3 Preludes

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Anton Bruckner - Ave Maria

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony no.39 in E flat major K.543 (4th mvt)

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Bedrich Smetana - The Bartered Bride (Overture)

2012-09-11

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Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow

2020-09-25

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Henriette Renié - Danse des Lutins

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BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world's most significant commissioner of new music, and through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama. Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of the Year Gold Award for 2009 and was nominated again in 2011.

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